# DigitalOcean Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB

[Frankfurt 1](https://www.rackcensus.com/locations/frankfurt-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in Frankfurt")

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 8, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

Skipped

Geekbench 7 multi-core

Skipped

Disk 4K IOPS

71,210

fio random read and write, 50/50

Median here: 48,421 over 3 runs in 90 days

Monthly price at test time

$6.00

Same price today

## Server

[DigitalOcean](https://www.rackcensus.com/vps-providers/digitalocean-benchmarks)[Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB](https://www.rackcensus.com/plans/z6r6vs-digitalocean-basic-1-vcpu-1-gb-benchmarks?location=fra1)

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Provider

DigitalOcean

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Plan

Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB

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Location

Frankfurt 1

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vCPU

1

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RAM

1 GB

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Storage

25 GB SSD

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Network

2 Gbps

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OS image

ubuntu-24-04-x64

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 8, 2026, 09:54:00 UTC

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## Latest runs of this plan

- [New York 3 Oct 8, 2026](https://www.rackcensus.com/benchmarks/2q6y0c-digitalocean-basic-1-vcpu-1-gb-nyc3-benchmark)Skipped
- [Amsterdam 3 Oct 7, 2026](https://www.rackcensus.com/benchmarks/8dr147-digitalocean-basic-1-vcpu-1-gb-ams3-benchmark)Skipped
- [Frankfurt 1 Oct 7, 2026](https://www.rackcensus.com/benchmarks/51q17v-digitalocean-basic-1-vcpu-1-gb-fra1-benchmark)Skipped
- [Amsterdam 3 Oct 6, 2026](https://www.rackcensus.com/benchmarks/uov1zx-digitalocean-basic-1-vcpu-1-gb-ams3-benchmark)Skipped
- [Frankfurt 1 Oct 6, 2026](https://www.rackcensus.com/benchmarks/gtg1rz-digitalocean-basic-1-vcpu-1-gb-fra1-benchmark)Skipped

[Full history of this plan](https://www.rackcensus.com/plans/z6r6vs-digitalocean-basic-1-vcpu-1-gb-benchmarks/history)

## CPU

Geekbench was skipped because this plan has less than 2 GB of RAM, which isn't enough for Geekbench 7 to run without swap.

## Memory, TLS and scheduler

### Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

| Test | Result | Runs | Spread |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Copy higher is better | 9.79 GB/s | 3 | 3.73% |
| Scale higher is better | 9.37 GB/s | 3 | 4.3% |
| Add higher is better | 10.4 GB/s | 3 | 4.67% |
| Triad higher is better | 10.6 GB/s | 3 | 3.34% |

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

### TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

| Test | Result | Runs | Spread |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RSA 4096 signs higher is better | 172/s | 3 | 3.47% |
| RSA 4096 verifies higher is better | 11,945/s | 3 | 1.63% |
| SHA-256 higher is better | 207 MB/s | 3 | 2.17% |
| AES-256-GCM higher is better | 2.89 GB/s | 3 | 10.8% |
| ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better | 1.36 GB/s | 3 | 6.69% |

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

### Scheduler latency (schbench)

| Test | Result | Runs | Spread |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Request latency, median lower is better | 4.9 ms | 3 | 2.61% |
| Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better | 203/s | 3 | 2.05% |
| Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better | 11.7 ms | 3 | 4.76% |
| Requests per second, average higher is better | 191/s | 3 | 2.77% |

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

## Disk

| Block size | Read | Write | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 4K | 138.9 MB/s (35,558 IOPS) | 139.3 MB/s (35,652 IOPS) | 278.2 MB/s (71,210 IOPS) |
| 64K | 1.07 GB/s (17,589 IOPS) | 1.08 GB/s (17,682 IOPS) | 2.15 GB/s (35,271 IOPS) |
| 512K | 745.8 MB/s (1,491 IOPS) | 785.4 MB/s (1,570 IOPS) | 1.5 GB/s (3,061 IOPS) |
| 1M | 767.3 MB/s (767 IOPS) | 818.4 MB/s (818 IOPS) | 1.55 GB/s (1,585 IOPS) |

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

## Network

### IPv4 transfer speed

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| Target | Protocol | Send | Receive |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Clouvider, London, UK (10G) | IPv4 | 1.98 Gbps | 1.87 Gbps |
| Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) | IPv4 | 2 Gbps | 1.89 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) | IPv4 | 1.1 Gbps | 1.24 Gbps |
| Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | IPv4 | 913 Mbps | 1.32 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.55 Gbps | 1.58 Gbps |

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

## Datastores

### PostgreSQL

#### fsync speed (pg\_test\_fsync)

| Method | Operations per second | Time per operation |
| --- | --- | --- |
| One 8 kB write |
| --- |
| open\_datasync | 7,554 | 0.132 ms |
| fdatasync | 7,278 | 0.137 ms |
| fsync | 4,511 | 0.222 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 4,736 | 0.211 ms |
| Two 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| open\_datasync | 3,393 | 0.295 ms |
| fdatasync | 5,329 | 0.188 ms |
| fsync | 4,468 | 0.224 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 1,954 | 0.512 ms |
| open\_sync at different write sizes |
| --- |
| 1 \* 16kB open\_sync write | 4,548 | 0.22 ms |
| 2 \* 8kB open\_sync writes | 2,524 | 0.396 ms |
| 4 \* 4kB open\_sync writes | 1,237 | 0.808 ms |
| 8 \* 2kB open\_sync writes | 512 | 1.95 ms |
| 16 \* 1kB open\_sync writes | 284 | 3.52 ms |
| fsync on a non-write descriptor |
| --- |
| write, fsync, close | 4,137 | 0.242 ms |
| write, close, fsync | 4,130 | 0.242 ms |
| Non-synced 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| write | 634,058 | 0.002 ms |

pg\_test\_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal\_sync\_method.

#### pgbench at scale 10

| Workload | Clients | Transactions/s | Median | p95 | p99 | p99.9 | Failed |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 1 | 1,578 | 0.567 ms | 1.03 ms | 1.85 ms | 4.24 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 1,578 | 4.57 ms | 8.79 ms | 13.3 ms | 22.8 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 1,224 | 21.6 ms | 56.3 ms | 91.7 ms | 149 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 23,383 | 0.039 ms | 0.066 ms | 0.088 ms | 0.292 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 19,043 | 0.372 ms | 0.703 ms | 0.893 ms | 2 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 11,682 | 2.44 ms | 3.29 ms | 4.88 ms | 6.84 ms | 0 |

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.8 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

#### pgbench at scale 100

| Workload | Clients | Transactions/s | Median | p95 | p99 | p99.9 | Failed |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 1 | 788 | 1.12 ms | 2.12 ms | 3.79 ms | 8.44 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 1,207 | 6 ms | 10.9 ms | 16.1 ms | 31.2 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 994 | 30.5 ms | 45.2 ms | 55.7 ms | 80.8 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 2,153 | 0.417 ms | 0.913 ms | 1.71 ms | 3.73 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 5,741 | 1.2 ms | 2.9 ms | 4.65 ms | 8.81 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 4,621 | 5.9 ms | 11.4 ms | 15.7 ms | 24.7 ms | 0 |

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 27.7 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

### MySQL

#### sysbench OLTP

| Workload | Threads | Transactions/s | Queries/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Errors |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Read/write | 1 | 225 | 4,506 | 4.03 ms | 7.17 ms | 12.1 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 8 | 275 | 5,508 | 27.2 ms | 45 ms | 57.9 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 32 | 264 | 5,277 | 115 ms | 180 ms | 223 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 611 | 9,774 | 1.55 ms | 2.31 ms | 3.43 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 586 | 9,378 | 13.2 ms | 18.6 ms | 22.3 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 505 | 8,084 | 62.2 ms | 83 ms | 94.1 ms | 0 |

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 20.3 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

### Redis

#### memtier

| Mix | Operations/s | Hits/s | Median | p99 | p99.9 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1:10 set:get | 22,606 | 20,551 | 2.61 ms | 6.21 ms | 10.9 ms |
| 1:1 set:get | 21,959 | 10,979 | 2.58 ms | 8.9 ms | 13.4 ms |

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 1 thread, 60 s per ratio.

## Web frameworks

| Framework | Fortunes req/s | Single query req/s | JSON req/s | Fortunes p99 at 256 connections |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Next.js | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Express | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Fastify | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| NestJS | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Nuxt | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| FastAPI | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Django | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Rails | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Laravel | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Symfony | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |

### WooCommerce

#### Page mix

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 8 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 0.635 | 2.23 s | 2.78 s | 3.07 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 0.635 | 2.99 s | 3.53 s | 3.56 s | 0% |
| Category page | 0.635 | 2.65 s | 3.25 s | 3.48 s | 0% |
| Product page | 0.635 | 2.26 s | 2.59 s | 2.63 s | 0% |
| Product search | 0.635 | 2.12 s | 2.4 s | 2.44 s | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 0.902 | 10.3 s | 12.5 s | 12.5 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 0.592 | 11.8 s | 13.3 s | 13.4 s | 0% |
| Category page | 0.451 | 10.9 s | 12.6 s | 12.8 s | 0% |
| Product page | 0.451 | 9.3 s | 9.68 s | 9.71 s | 0% |
| Product search | 0.451 | 9.67 s | 10.6 s | 10.7 s | 0% |

#### Cart and checkout

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 8 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 0.971 | 2.37 s | 3 s | 3.37 s | 0% |
| Cart | 0.971 | 2.52 s | 2.9 s | 3.21 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 0.971 | 1.95 s | 2.35 s | 2.38 s | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 1.35 | 8.22 s | 10.5 s | 10.8 s | 0% |
| Cart | 1.24 | 9.85 s | 10.4 s | 10.7 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 0.902 | 7.97 s | 10 s | 10.1 s | 0% |

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 65 to 74 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

## Advertised vs. measured

| Spec | Advertised | Measured |
| --- | --- | --- |
| vCPU | 1 | 1 |
| CPU | Shared vCPU | 4.2% of busy CPU time stolen |
| RAM | 1 GB | 961 MiB |
| Storage | 25 GB SSD | 24.1 GiB |
| Architecture | x86\_64 | x86\_64 |
| Virtualization | KVM | KVM |

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

## Detected hardware

**CPU model:** DO-Regular

**CPU cores:** 1

**CPU frequency:** 2494 MHz

**AES-NI:** Yes

**VM-x/AMD-V:** Yes

**RAM reported:** 961 MiB

**Swap reported:** 0 MiB

**Disk reported:** 24.1 GiB

**Virtualization reported:** KVM

**CPU steal:** 4.2% of busy CPU time stolen

**Distro:** Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS

**Kernel:** 6.8.0-142-generic

**Architecture:** x86\_64

**IPv4 reachable:** Yes

**IPv6 reachable:** Yes

## Advertised at test time

**Plan:** Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB

**Product line:** Basic

**Location:** Frankfurt 1

**vCPU:** 1 shared vCPU

**Architecture:** x86\_64

**RAM:** 1 GB

**Storage:** 25 GB SSD

**Virtualization:** KVM

**Network:** 2 Gbps

**Transfer:** 1 TB

**Port 25:** Closed

**Monthly price at test time:** $6.00

**Hourly price at test time:** $0.0089

**YABS version:** v2026-09-20

**Ran at:** Oct 8, 2026, 09:57:54 UTC

**Parser version:** 5

## Run timeline

**Queued:** Oct 8, 2026, 09:54:00 UTC

**Server created:** Oct 8, 2026, 09:55:32 UTC

**First update from the server:** Oct 8, 2026, 09:55:32 UTC

**Completed:** Oct 8, 2026, 11:08:00 UTC

**Server deleted:** Oct 8, 2026, 11:08:00 UTC

**Cost of this run:** $0.011

Tests 35 of 35 done Live output 696 lines

Setup 1 cores, 961.5 MiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 292 MB/s at 4k, 1.66 GB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 1.55 Gbit/s send, 1.58 Gbit/s receive, 1 retried 5 of 5Done

Phoronix (memory, TLS, scheduler) 3 of 3Done

Datastores 5 of 5Done

Web frameworks 12 of 12Done

Finish Results saved 1 of 1Done

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